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Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from.


Cormac McCarthy

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MARJORIE PAY HINCKLEY The best minds come from the most unexpected faces and places. There is no image for intelligence or...
SUZY KASSEM There is a part of us that knows the timing of any relationship. It knows things that we cannot work...
DONNA GODDARD In the business world an executive knows something about everything, a technician knows everything a...
HAROLD COFFIN In the business world an executive knows something about everything, a technician knows everything a...
HAROLD COFFIN Clothes are but a symbol of something hid deep beneath.
VIRGINIA WOOLF Each of us knows it all, and knows he knows it all—the rest, to a man, are fools and eluded. One m...
MARK TWAIN A person who thinks that he knows something better doesn’t know that his wife knows better than hi...
VIKRANT PARSAI Everybody knows everybody, and if something goes wrong, we're calling each other.
ANDREA GARIBAY Cormac McCarthy's language is perfect. He is in my view the greatest living American prose styli...
TOMMY LEE JONES The goal of mankind is knowledge ... Now this knowledge is inherent in man. No knowledge comes from ...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA [This is] somebody that knows Dennis the person, and knows he would never intentionally steal someth...
DARREN PRINCE There are four types of men in this world: 1. The man who knows, and knows that he knows; he is wise...
IBN GABIROL There are four types of men in this world: 1. The man who knows, and knows that he knows; he is wise...
SOLOMON IBN GABIROL BEN JUDAH Could anything be absurder than a man? The animal who knows everything about himself--except why he ...
STORM JAMESON Could anything be absurder than a man? The animal who knows everything about himself - except why he...
STORM JAMESON But what a feeling can come over a man just from seeing the things he believes in and hopes for symb...
RALPH ELLISON Krishna was once asked what was the most miraculous thing in all creation, and he replied, "That a m...
CHRISTOPHER PIKE Where I used to think that this life would be good. And I would do things that I thought that I shou...
SOMETHING CORPORATE Only to a magician is the world forever fluid, infinitely mutable and eternally new. Only he knows t...
PETER S. BEAGLE We're hoping that somebody out there knows something and will give it up. This is definitely somethi...
DAVE BRISTOW He is wise who knows the sources of knowledge - who knows who has written and where it is to be foun...
A. A. HODGE The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.
ARISTOTLE ONASSIS I wonder if Tiger Woods knows that every time he tees up his golf ball, he is putting it on somethin...
CARLTON FUNN A man who knows how little he knows is well, a man who knows how much he knows is sick. If, when you...
LAO TZU Through zeal, knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost; let a man who knows th...
BUDDHA Through zeal, knowledge is gotten; through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost; let a man who knows the ...
BUDDHA The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but...
MARK TWAIN The person who knows his calling will not be embarrassed in front of great and famous people because...
SUNDAY ADELAJA You know that the things you put it your head stay there, right?'
'Yeah. But you remember some ...
CORMAC MCCARTHY The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures;...
MARK TWAIN Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be.
ITALO CALVINO Through zeal knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal knowledge is lost; let a man who knows this d...
BUDDHA Through zeal knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal knowledge is lost; let a man who knows this ...
BIBLE It's as simple as something that nobody knows.
JACK JOHNSON Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.
ROBERT STAUGHTON LYND A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profound...
ALBERT EINSTEIN He who knows not and knows not that he knows not is a fool. Shun him. He who knows not and knows tha...
ARAB PROVERB A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed f...
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON Let each man exercise the art he knows.
ARISTOPHANES And with Him are the keys of the unseen treasures-- none knows them but He; and He knows what is in ...
QURAN Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; Wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
WILLIAM COWPER He Who Knows And Knows That He Knows Is A Wise Man - Follow Him;
He Who Knows Not And Knows Not...
CONFUCIUS Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.
ROBERT LYND The secret of business is to know something nobody else knows
ARISTOTLE ONASSIS A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from ...
GEORGE GURDJIEFF A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from ...
GURDJIEFF And no Grand Inquisitor has in readiness such terrible tortures as has anxiety, and no spy knows how...
SCOTT STOSSEL The mechanic, when a wheel refuses to turn, never thinks of dropping on his knees and asking the ass...
ROBERT G. INGERSOLL It's as simple as something that nobody knows.
JACK JOHNSON Not a single man on earth knows from his own experience the how and where of his birth, only from tr...
E. T. A. HOFFMANN Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to ...
KONRAD LORENZ Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to ...
MICHAEL GARRETT MARINO The only difference between a man and god is that man knows nothing but pretends as if he knows ever...
ANURAAG Life's irony;The trader knows that for sure,one day all his goods shall eventually be sold,but the s...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) I cannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the most argumentative.
GIOVANI DELLA CASA A blind man knows he cannot see, and is glad to be led, though it be by a dog; but he that is blind ...
SAMUEL BUTLER A blind man knows he cannot see, and is glad to be led, though it be by a dog; but he that is blind ...
SAMUEL BUTLER We are all receiving Charity. There is something in each of us that cannot be
naturally loved.
C.S. LEWIS You can tell that they're brothers because they got a real good feel for each other and they look ou...
ALBERT THOMAS Whoever has really sacrificed anything, knows that he wanted and got something in return
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There ...
HERMANN HESSE Man... knows only when he is satisfied and when he suffers, and only his sufferings and his satisfac...
JOHANN VON GOETHE When you have nothing nobody knows you. When you have something everyone knows you. If you're not wi...
REGINA MARIE CHRISTENSON This is the constitutional limitation of man's knowledge and interests, the fact that he cannot know...
F.A. HAYEK The postmodern reply to the modern consists of recognizing that the past, since it cannot really be ...
UMBERTO ECO The postmodern reply to the modern consists of recognizing that the past, since it cannot really be ...
UMBERTO ECO America is not nearly done. We're only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows... ...
ALICE WALKER We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a wor...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE There comes a moment in a young artist's life when he knows he has to bring something to the stage f...
MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV The more a man knows, the more willing he is to learn. The less a man knows, the more positive he is...
ROBERT G. INGERSOLL There’s always someone who knows something.
STEPHEN KING When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
SAMUEL JOHNSON It is the tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - and the less a man knows, th...
JOYCE CARY The only man meant to be in your life is a man that knows your worth.
SHANNON L. ALDER G-- knows I'm no the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be, But twenty times I...
ROBERT BURNS No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning...
BRAM STOKER She just paces back and forth, going from room to room. She knows something isn't right.
KARL TURNER The secret to success is to know something nobody else knows.
ARISTOTLE ONASSIS No one really knows who I am or where I came from in America, and there's something quite nice a...
KATE BECKINSALE He knows that at the end of his football career, he's going to need to get a job, and that's somethi...
GREG BOTTA The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is Possible.
GABRIEL MARCEL Suppose you were the last one left? Suppose you did that to yourself?
CORMAC MCCARTHY You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ...
C. JOYBELL C. The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
JOSEPH ADDISON One who tills his own land knows the value of each seed.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Many people live in world,but few of them knows something about the world.
BENJAMIN KUSI BOATENG But on treatment, it is lagging unconscionably, ... What troubles me, and troubles me deeply, is tha...
STEPHEN LEWIS But on treatment, it is lagging unconscionably. What troubles me, and troubles me deeply, is that th...
STEPHEN LEWIS Tell me something about yourself that no one else knows. Something I can keep for myself.
COLLEEN HOOVER Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.
ALBERT EINSTEIN Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people .
ALBERT EINSTEIN We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a wor...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE Knowledge is something that fire cannot burn, water cannot wet, air cannot dry, thieves cannot steal...
RAJEN JANI The power which resides in man is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do,...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON But these five kings fled, and hid themselves in a cave at Makkedah.
BIBLE Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.
SIR JOHN DENHAM Our spirit knows we don’t die nor are we born. If our ego knew what our greater self knows, it wou...
HOPE BRADFORD

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Is that why war endures?

No. It...
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CORMAC MCCARTHY You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
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CORMAC MCCARTHY He sounded like a man with a mouthful of marbles, articulating his goatbone underjaw laboriously, th...
CORMAC MCCARTHY You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
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CORMAC MCCARTHY He never sleeps, the judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die.
CORMAC MCCARTHY I tried to put things in perspective but sometimes you're just too close to it.
CORMAC MCCARTHY Live by yourself and you bound to talk yourself and when ye commence that folks start it up that you...
CORMAC MCCARTHY Then they set out along the blacktop in the gunmetal light, shuffling through the ash, each the othe...
CORMAC MCCARTHY You have to carry the fire."
I don't know how to."
Yes, you do."
Is the fire real? Th...
CORMAC MCCARTHY He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.
CORMAC MCCARTHY In a pocket of his knapsack he'd found a last half packet of cocoa and he fixed it for the boy and t...
CORMAC MCCARTHY The man could hear him playing. A formless music for the age to come. Or perhaps the last music on e...
CORMAC MCCARTHY The man thought he seemed some sad and solitary changeling child announcing the arrival of a traveli...
CORMAC MCCARTHY The nights were blinding cold and casket black and the long reach of the morning had a terrible sile...
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CORMAC MCCARTHY A person who had no one would be well advised to cobble together some passable ghost. Breathe it int...
CORMAC MCCARTHY In the deep glens where they lived, all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery.
CORMAC MCCARTHY He walked out into the road and stood. The silence. The salitter drying from the earth. The mudstain...
CORMAC MCCARTHY The black shape of it running from dark to dark. Then a distant low rumble. Not thunder. You could f...
CORMAC MCCARTHY Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said. You might want to t...
CORMAC MCCARTHY There is no God and we are his prophets.
CORMAC MCCARTHY If you break little promises, you'll break big ones.
CORMAC MCCARTHY The frailty of everything revealed at last. Old and troubling issues resolved into nothingness and n...
CORMAC MCCARTHY On this road there are no godspoke men. They are gone and I am left and they have taken with them th...
CORMAC MCCARTHY He thought each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins. As in a party game. Say the wo...
CORMAC MCCARTHY Long before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I'd always known. That al...
CORMAC MCCARTHY You have my whole heart. You always did.
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CORMAC MCCARTHY Somewhere out there is a true and living prophet of destruction and I dont want to confront him. I k...
CORMAC MCCARTHY What business is it of yours where I'm from, friendo?
CORMAC MCCARTHY You can tell it any way you want but that's the way it is. I should of done it and I didn’t. And s...
CORMAC MCCARTHY This country will kill you in a heartbeat and still people love it.
CORMAC MCCARTHY Dope.
They sell that shit to schoolkids.
It's worse than that.
How's that?
Schoo...
CORMAC MCCARTHY Things happen to you they happen. They dont ask first. They dont require your permission.
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CORMAC MCCARTHY I have no enemies. I dont permit such a thing.
CORMAC MCCARTHY My daddy always told me to just do the best you knew how and tell the truth. He said there was nothi...
CORMAC MCCARTHY All the time you spend tryin to get back what's been took from you there's more goin out the door. A...
CORMAC MCCARTHY If there's one thing on this planet you don't look like it's a bunch of good luck walkin around.
CORMAC MCCARTHY You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday dont count. But yesterday is all that does count....
CORMAC MCCARTHY I think that when the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be there yet. It dont move about f...
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CORMAC MCCARTHY If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?
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CORMAC MCCARTHY you fix what you can fix and you let the rest go. If there ain't nothin to be done about it it aint ...
CORMAC MCCARTHY I think by the time you're grown you're as happy as you're goin to be. You'll have good times and ba...
CORMAC MCCARTHY Ever step you take is forever. You cant make it go away. None of it. You understand what I'm sayin?
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CORMAC MCCARTHY You keep runnin that mouth and I'm goin to take you back there and screw you.
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CORMAC MCCARTHY As for me my only hope is for eternal nothingness and I hope it with all my heart.
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CORMAC MCCARTHY I dont believe knowing can save us. What is
constant in history is greed and foolishness and a ...
CORMAC MCCARTHY Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle.
CORMAC MCCARTHY whoever approaches his goal dances
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CORMAC MCCARTHY The point is there ain't no point.
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I don't guess you would know it...
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CORMAC MCCARTHY When one has nothing left make ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them.
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CORMAC MCCARTHY What would you do if I died?
If you died I would want to die too.
So you could be with me?...
CORMAC MCCARTHY Query: How does the never to be differ from what never was?
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CORMAC MCCARTHY If only my heart were stone.
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CORMAC MCCARTHY Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
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CORMAC MCCARTHY the beast who dreams of man and has so dreamt in running dreams a hundred thousand years and more. D...
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CORMAC MCCARTHY When the lambs is lost in the mountain, he said. They is cry. Sometime come the mother. Sometime the...
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CORMAC MCCARTHY Because the question for me was always whether that shape we see in our lives was there from the beg...
CORMAC MCCARTHY He'd half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat.
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CORMAC MCCARTHY What he loved in horses was what he loved in men, the blood and the heat of the blood that ran them....
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CORMAC MCCARTHY He saw very clearly how all his life led only to this moment and all after led to nowhere at all. He...
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CORMAC MCCARTHY He said that those who have endured some misfortune will always be set apart but that it is just tha...
CORMAC MCCARTHY I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.
CORMAC MCCARTHY Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
CORMAC MCCARTHY Maybe it's like Mac says. Ever man winds up with the horse that suits him.
CORMAC MCCARTHY This is my child, he said. I wash a dead man's brains out of his hair. That is my job.
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CORMAC MCCARTHY The mummied dead everywhere. The flesh cloven along the bones, the ligaments dried to tug and taut a...
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CORMAC MCCARTHY The heart beneath the breastbone pumping. The blood on its appointed rounds. Life in small places, n...
CORMAC MCCARTHY Carry the fire.
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CORMAC MCCARTHY They passed, leaving a trail of foxfire shuffled up out of the wet leaves like stars plowed in a shi...
CORMAC MCCARTHY They had no curiousity about him at all. As if they knew all that they needed to know. They stood an...
CORMAC MCCARTHY All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in p...
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CORMAC MCCARTHY Every day is a lie, he said. But you are dying. That is not a lie.
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CORMAC MCCARTHY I felt early on I wasn't going to be a respectable citizen.
CORMAC MCCARTHY A man is always right to pursue the thing he loves.
No matter even if it kills him?
I thin...
CORMAC MCCARTHY Suppose you were the last one left? Suppose you did that to yourself?
CORMAC MCCARTHY It howled execration upon the dim camarine world of its nativity wail on wail while he lay there gib...
CORMAC MCCARTHY Pensó que cada recuerdo evocado debe violentar en alguna medida sus orígenes. Como en un juego. El...
CORMAC MCCARTHY Como si el mundo se encogiera en torno a un núcleo de entidades desglosables. Las cosas cayendo en ...
CORMAC MCCARTHY Algunas cosas las olvidas, no? Olvidas lo que quieres recordar y recuerdas lo que quieres olvidar.
CORMAC MCCARTHY The things that I loved were very frail. Very fragile. I didn't know that. I thought they were indes...
CORMAC MCCARTHY You have my whole heart. You always did. You're the best guy. You always were.
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CORMAC MCCARTHY Deployed upon that plain they moved in a constant elision, ordained agents of the actual dividing ou...
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CORMAC MCCARTHY In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure death will.
CORMAC MCCARTHY He rose and stood tottering in that cold dark with his arms held out for balance while the vestibula...
CORMAC MCCARTHY They rode out along the fenceline and across the open pastureland. The leather creaked in the mornin...
CORMAC MCCARTHY You know that the things you put it your head stay there, right?'
'Yeah. But you remember some ...
CORMAC MCCARTHY When you've nothing else construct ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them.
CORMAC MCCARTHY The cap was gone and the man dropped to his elbows to smell the pipe but the odor of gas was only a ...
CORMAC MCCARTHY A man seeks his own destiny and no other, said the judge. Wil or nill. Any man who could discover hi...
CORMAC MCCARTHY He sat a long time and he thought about his life and how little of it he could ever have foreseen an...
CORMAC MCCARTHY The arrangement seems to be that UBS will buy Time Warner shares it seems for the voting rights but ...
CORMAC BUTLER Icahn wants sufficient control to achieve his strategy of breaking up Time Warner.
CORMAC BUTLER In a typical situation the investor accepts a low or zero interest rate in return for exposure to a ...
CORMAC BUTLER Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking.
JOHN MCCARTHY Compassion is contempt with a human face.
JOHN MCCARTHY Black holes destroy any objects that happen to fall victim to their gravitational pull.
KEVIN MCCARTHY Comedy to me is all about the bumps and bruises and weird tics.
MELISSA MCCARTHY To me, having 500 rolls of fabric around is the most calming thing in the world. I think it's wh...
MELISSA MCCARTHY As any small business owner knows, starting a business is not glamorous work.
KEVIN MCCARTHY I started my first business when I was 19. I learned a valuable lesson as a small business owner. Yo...
KEVIN MCCARTHY Asking a critic to name his favorite book is like asking a butcher to name his favorite pig.
JOHN MCCARTHY Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift ...
MARY MCCARTHY The two-party system has given this country the war of Lyndon Johnson, the Watergate of Nixon, and t...
EUGENE MCCARTHY One thing about a pig, he thinks he's warm if his nose is warm. I saw a bunch of pigs one time that ...
EUGENE MCCARTHY In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if e...
MARY MCCARTHY To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, pol...
MARY MCCARTHY ...friendship...is essential to intellectuals. You can date the evolving life of a mind, like the ag...
MARY MCCARTHY Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?
CHARLIE MCCARTHY We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.
MARY MCCARTHY I'm just absolutely overjoyed. These people have all stayed with their faith their denomination and ...
ALICE MCCARTHY The idea of it is to examine religious issues. They (panelist) are radical in the sense that they go...
ALICE MCCARTHY They call us to action to love each other. Just in the correspondence I've been having with them, I ...
ALICE MCCARTHY I think that if there is a large number of people here that it will get the churches talking. I thin...
ALICE MCCARTHY I'm just absolutely overjoyed. These people have all stayed with their faith â€Ã...
ALICE MCCARTHY Honey, nobody ever knows someone completely. You have to just enjoy what you do know and have faith ...
ERIN MCCARTHY Why?” she whispered. “Why should I dance with you?”

“Because I love you. Because ...
ERIN MCCARTHY The happy ending is our national belief.
MARY MCCARTHY Any manager who can't get along with a .400 hitter is crazy.
JOE MCCARTHY Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift ...
MARY MCCARTHY Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
CHARLIE MCCARTHY Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.
MARY MCCARTHY A society person who is enthusiastic about modern painting or Truman Capote is already half a traito...
MARY MCCARTHY